Spotlight, Masters & iKEA

House mode!

With buying a new home, comes the joy of thinking of thousands of more ways to spend more money on the house.

We have spent many weekends exploring and short listing items for our house. Our approach to things is that it is good to explore to see what is out there and be able to buy things over time - not having to rush at the end when you want to move in. The other advantage is that we don't need to budget every single item to get post build and set aside money for uncertain costs of items.

Buying over time allows us the benefit to purchase items on sale when it suites us, which has been good with end of financial year sales. The highest priority items and the best deals are the ones we have purchases so far and will continue to chip away at household items over the coming months.

If you haven't guessed already, we are pretty overzealous and a bit to pro active with our purchases and ideas!

IKEA

IKEA has been handy for a few light/small purchases - we have picked up a few utensils and storage items (rails to mount under the kitchen cupboards for utensils and baskets)

Masters

The cleaner and more polished version of Bunnings - we picked up the white goods we needed here. The base price of two of the three items was the lowest around. The last was painlessly priced matched to a good guys in-store special. Delivery was reasonable and shall arrive soon to be stored for a few months at our current location.

Spotlight

The store of never ending specials - we have previously picked up some of the pre-made roller blinds for key areas of the house that will need them immediately (bathrooms, bedrooms, etc). We are also looking at a basic rug from there and possibly some outdoor blinds in the future.

Stratco

Exploring their range of pergolas and patios - many grand ideas and we don't even have a house - easy to get ahead of yourself. The thought with this, was to explore mounting options should the area be concreted, as well as developer/council approval for such a structure.

Furniture 

We spent some time trawling through the good furniture places in Frankston-Dandenong Rd. We managed to find a good deal on some bedside tables - one of the few furniture items we were lacking. The only other addition was a kitchen table, which we managed to find a reasonable priced 7 piece at Amart.

Future trips

Now that we have knocked over most of the bigger ticket items, its only a matter of some utensil and nice fittings for the place - not having to worry about sourcing the large items will be nice - we can focus on other things / watching the build happen!